From Cæsar's Wife: A Comedy in Three Acts by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

They don't always understand local conditions in England. Osman is a Moslem of the old school. He has a bitter hatred of the English. In course of years he has come to accept the inevitable, but he's not resigned to it. He never loses sight of his aim. (APPLEBY: And that is?) Why, bless you, to drive the English into the sea. But he's a clever old rascal, and he sees that one of the first things that must be done is to educate the Egyptians. Well, we want to educate them too. I had all sorts of reforms in mind which I would never have got the strict Mohammedans to accept if they hadn't been brought forward by a man whose patriotism they believe in and whose orthodoxy is beyond suspicion. (ANNE: Don't you find it embarrassing to work with a man you distrust?) I don't distrust him. I have a certain admiration for him, and I bear him no grudge at all because at the bottom of his heart he simply loathes me.

Sir Arthur Little Monologue from Cæsar's Wife: A Comedy in Three Acts

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